Colorado vs. Miami
Colorado and Miami have 8 meetings on file, the first in 1961; Colorado leads the series 5–3 in the games on file. Over the last 8 meetings it’s Colorado 5–3, and Miami has won the last 2. Share
- Colorado wins
- 5
- Miami wins
- 3
- Ties
- 0
- Earliest on file
- 1961
- Longest streak
- 4 Colorado
- Current streak
- 2 Miami
- Last 10 meetings
- Colorado 5–3
- Most recent
- 2005
The series at a glance
| ’0 | ’1 | ’2 | ’3 | ’4 | ’5 | ’6 | ’7 | ’8 | ’9 | W–L | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2–1 | ||||||||||
| 1970s | 3–0 | ||||||||||
| 1990s | 0–1 | ||||||||||
| 2000s | 0–1 |
- Both ranked
- 1 meeting: Colorado 0, Miami 1
- Average margin
- 14 points; 2 decided by one score (8 or fewer)
- At Colorado
- 2–2 Colorado’s record at home
- At Miami
- 1–2 Miami’s record at home
- Neutral sites
- 1–0 Colorado first
Every meeting on file, as played. Ranks are the AP poll’s going in.
Games that tell the story
- Colorado’s biggest win1976: Colorado 33, Miami 3by 30 points
- Miami’s biggest win1966: Miami 24, Colorado 3by 21 points
- Ranked showdown1993: Miami 35, Colorado 29No. 3 Miami at No. 13 Colorado
Both programs through the years
Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.
Stars of the series
Named most valuable
| Bobby Anderson Colorado | 1967 |
Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
From the newspapers
1961 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Oct 14, 1961
Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.
Every game
| Sep 24, 2005 | 12Miami 23, Colorado 3 | at Miami | ||
| Sep 25, 1993 | 3Miami 35, 13Colorado 29 | at Colorado | ||
| Sep 16, 1978 | Colorado 17, Miami 7 | at Colorado | ||
| Sep 25, 1976 | Colorado 33, Miami 3 | at Colorado | ||
| Oct 10, 1975 | 13Colorado 23, Miami 10 | at Miami | ||
| Dec 23, 1967 | Colorado 31, Miami 21 | Neutral site | Bluebonnet Bowl | |
| Sep 17, 1966 | Miami 24, Colorado 3 | at Colorado | ||
| Oct 13, 1961 | Colorado 9, Miami 7 | at Miami |
Every game is listed as played on the field.